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Africa: Climate Change 'Biggest Global Health Threat' of Century, Doctors Warn
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 28 November 2018
Rising heat and wilder weather linked to climate change make it "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century", with hundreds of millions more people already suffering in… Read more »
Climate Change the 'Biggest Global Health Threat of the Century'
In a hard-hitting report published by The Lancet medical journal, scientists and health experts have said climate change impacts - from heatwaves to worsening storms, floods and fires - were surging and threatened to overwhelm health systems, writes the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A farmer points to some of the banana trees dotting the steep hillsides in villages in Anjouan that used to burst with fruit but are struggling or dying due to changing weather and soil erosion.
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